Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...routine appointment. It had been openly said in Washington that the President was looking for "another Goethals." General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of Engineers, retired on Aug. 7. On his successor devolves the duty of carrying out the Mississippi flood relief project which the President rates in importance if not in difficulty above the building of the Panama Canal. Flood Control is but one item on the inland waterways program...
...indication of the importance that he places on the Chief Engineer's post, the President let it be known that he was looking for three other warrior-engineer-executives. They will be General Brown's lieutenants, one in local charge of the flood relief project (Cairo, 111., to the Gulf), one in charge of the Mississippi developments north of Cairo, one in charge of the Great Lakes and proposed St. Lawrence waterway...
...most immediate moment is the Cairo to the Gulf flood project. Congress appropriated $325,000,000 for it, many think that it will cost $500,000,000 or more...
...President Hoover announced that if Congressmen from the lower Mississippi Basin were willing to assume responsibility by requesting it, he was willing to delay Mississippi flood control work in that region...
Building up a library in two decades is far from easy, especially when it is dependent to a large extent on selecting it from the flood of contemporary material. To those men who have been connected with this work during the library's life both Harvard University and American business owe a deep debt of gratitude...